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Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings (24:17) Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult (24:18) Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me (24:19) Or else let these same [here] say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council, (24:20) Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day (24:21) And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of [that] way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter (24:22) And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let [him] have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him (24:23) And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ (24:24) And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee (24:25) He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him (24:26) But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound
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